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Re: ordering calls to driver's ::start() routine?

I'm not a guru, but in your probe you could get the PCI slot number or some
information from the PCI bus telling you the position of your card. From
there you could set-up your driver properly.

Am I misunderstanding what you want to do ?

Regards
Francis

On 04/02/2002 16:29, "Andrew Gallatin" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'm working on an IOKit driver for a PCI device. I'm matching on
> device id / vendor id in info.plist.
>
> All was well until I added a second card to the machine (dual g4).
> When I did this, I noticed that my start() routine was being called in
> parallel. This is bad because all units share some common data. To
> fix this, I "locked" the start routine.
>
> However, I'm now having a problem where the start() routine is
> called in a somewhat random order. By this I mean that most times
> <device>@12 makes it into the start() routine first, but sometimes
> <device>@14 wins the race. This is a problem because the first
> device through my start() routine ends up as unit 0, the second as
> unit 1, etc. I'd really like to keep these unit numbers
> consistant across reboots.
>
> Is there an easy way to make this deterministic?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
>
> Drew
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